9 Wonder Words: A Language for Living Well—Even When All Hell Breaks Loose

Winner - Best Book Non-Fiction Award at American Book Festival 2025 Winner - Gold Medal at Global Book Awards 2024 Winner - Bronze Medal at Living Now Evergreen Book Award 2025 Finalist - Book Excellence Awards 2025 Finalist - Readers’ Favorite International Book Award 2025 Words Change How You Think, Feel, Act, and Even What You See Neuroscience shows that words from different languages can re-wire your brain, helping you to create a positive mindset. Some words help you feel happy, see beauty, believe in a better world, and your own power to create it. These are the positive words you will find in this book: global words of wellness from ancient and modern languages all over the world. Travel across the world to discover them with Lucy Turner: a United Nations civil servant who lived and worked on five continents. Through language-learning, she found words to feel hopeful, confident, and calm, no matter what. She shares these positive mindset words with you in this book, through fun short stories and ground-breaking science. 9 Wonder Words will do more than make you smile. It will give you a language for loving life, and your own power to make it even better. In 9 Wonder Words, you will discover: A word to improve your leadership and resilience in times of crisis. A word to increase your creativity and performance. A word to give you access to the stress-reducing benefits of gratitude. A word to feel good now, no matter what circumstances you are in. An ancient Indian word to give you a sense that you have more time. Words from Southern Africa and the Pacific to help you believe in, and achieve, your biggest goals. Lessons from West Africa and South Asia on how language promotes peace and progress. Lessons from the Middle East on how to use your voice to increase your income and access to opportunities. Global research showing how language created our species, accelerates evolution and can regenerate our planet and societies – beginning with you. Most of all, you’ll laugh your way across the planet with a woman who reveals to you the beauty of some of the world’s most remote and extraordinary places. It's a global adventure that will warm your heart, open your mind, and lift your spirit.
ASIN: 1734840080
VSKU: BVV.1734840080.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Turner, Lucy
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use